Job market reports · Metro · September 2026

Tech jobs in Austin, TX

484 live technical postings in Austin, TX in September 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Austin, TX technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer54.5%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer9.5%
  3. 3Security Engineer7%
  4. 4Data Scientist5.6%
  5. 5Data Analyst5.4%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer4.5%
  7. 7Data Engineer3.9%
  8. 8Full-Stack Engineer3.3%
  9. 9Frontend Engineer2.5%
  10. 10AI Engineer2.1%
  11. 11Backend Engineer1.7%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Austin, TX. Role mix drives this as much as location does — a metro heavy in senior infrastructure roles will out-earn one heavy in analytics regardless of cost of living.

Disclosed pay — Austin, TX
n = 82
10th
$115k
25th
$150k
Median
$170k
75th
$207k
90th
$245k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python40.1%
  2. 2aws26.4%
  3. 3ci/cd16.5%
  4. 4react14.9%
  5. 5kubernetes14.7%
  6. 6typescript14.7%
  7. 7sql14%
  8. 8c++13.2%
  9. 9gcp13.2%
  10. 10docker12%
  11. 11java12%
  12. 12terraform11%

Who is hiring here

Employers with the most open technical postings in this market.

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.